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All Are Saved From Robin Moor
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British Ship
Carries 35
To Capetown
Chief Officer of Robin
Moor and Group of
Seamen Who Visited
U-Boat Among Sur
vivors Landed at
South Africa Port.
Capetown. In ion of South
Africa. June 16.— (ΛΡ)—Thirty
live survivors of the American
freighter Koltin Moor—all those
hitherto unaccounted for—land
ed late toda.v at Capetown from
a British ship which rescued
them
The American legation an
nounced the arrival of the sur
vivors. including; seven passen
gers—four of them Americans—
and 28 crewmen.
This group, along with eleven
others who had reached Recife,
Brazil, had abandoned their ship
for lifeboats May 21 in mid-At
lantic, just before the Kohin
Moor was torpedoed.
(Eleven survivors which had
reached Recife. Brazil, aboard a
Brazilian steamer, already had
identified the submarine which
sank the ship as German. The
Brazilian group was leaving for
the I nited States today.)
In New York. Athur Lewis, Jr.,
vice president of the Robin line,
said that lie had received a cable
from the firm's Capetown agent,
saying that the survivors had
"just arrived" and that further
details would be sent later.
The rescue of the remaining pas
sengers and crewmen should provide
additional identification of tin.· U
bnat, for the group of 3ό includes
the chief officer of the Robin Moor
and the crewmen he took with him
by boat to the submarine in response
I to its summ< ns before the torpedo
ing.
I The survivors at Recife, taken
■ there by the Brazilian steamship
! Ozorio after 19 days of lifeboat drill
ing, included none of those seamen.
Four lifeboats in all were lowered
I by the Robin Moor on short notice
[ before the freighter had sunk. One
I contained eleven seamen, an ther
twelve seamen, another ten seamen
and a pas.-enger, and the fouth three
: nurried couples, a child and five sea
I men.
Those in the boat with ten sea
I ηκ η and one passenger reached
Recife lui the Brazilian ship.
Leaf-Buying
Practices
Defended
Lexington, Κν.. Juin Hi —(ΛΓΊ—
j Federal trial el t!:«* tobacco indus
try'.- "biR three" m eneiinal mono
poly charge pi oduced tetmumy to
day lii.it chaotic ι !.l . ·η^ prevailed
on I lue-cured :·...; ■.ι t before the To
j bacco Association ol the United
j Slate:- was established.
: Tli.mtiis \V. lllaekwell of Win.-totl
I Salem. N. C'.. supervisor ol llue-cu]'
j ed purchase^ !.ir the R .1 Reynolds
! Company, a ma.ior corporate détend
ant along with Liggett and Myers
and American Tobacco gave that
test imony.
The government charge: that the
defendants "control" the tobacco
markets bv dominating lia ...socia
tion. bill Blaekwell said belore the
association w as · .rgaiii/.ed. "certain
warehousemen \\ n'la open up a sale
j on some markets and have only a
lew individual buyers there."
"The tobacco compana. did not
get an opporumoy !o b d on certain
tobaccos that they would like to have
had the opportun t\ to buy and the
farmer· were denied the ι igl 1 and
privilcfjt ol ! · ■ Λ .Il bi.yei'N present
w hen their product was sold." he ad
He te Γι ed that the a sociatioa
committee which lecommends to
wareh<iu.-es the dater lor opening
sales "listens to information" suo
plied by larmer- "about the maturity
ol the crop and their desires as to
when they want the market open
ed."
niarkwcll said that all farmers
were eligible to join tin· association,
but admitted to government counsel
that he did "not recall that very
many joined."
WEATHER
FOR \OllTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and
ï Ur:.tla> : ι Vu ill tempera 1 très.
led
Nazi Consulates In U. S. Ordered Closed
No Break In
Relations
Is Implied
Order issued by State
L^cpartment Requiring
Closing of Consulates
and Agencies and Re
moval ot all Connect
ed With Them.
\\usIiiiiKlon. June 1 (>.— (AP)—
I lir I inlcd Stall's today ordered
.ill i.iinian consulates closed by
.mix il) because of activities "ini
Iiiii.ll lo the welfare of this
II » 111111■>·."
Niiiioiinciiic the action, Suni
ncr Welles, undersecretary of
state, said it did not imply a
hri .ik in diplomatic relations with
(iennany and did not affect the
diplomatie staff in Washington.
Ili made the announcement alter
auing a note to Dr. Wilhi'im Tati
i r«. fιr-1 secretary ut the Uer
1 ' i>sy, m the absence ol Hans
ι·π. charge d'atlaires, who was
λ York.
" i.rtler requires the closing of
')i ! inan Library ot Information :
i : .iilw.iy tourist bureau and the !
h I ι a nsocea η news agency. It
: ι removal ol ail nationals c 11
·.·1 'cil with the consulates and these
.1. ' ncies.
1 I 1 iii.-oeean is not conneeled with
.1: ν American news agency.)
it has come lo the knowledge of
lyivernment," the Welles note
.1. that agencies of the German
m this country, including Gcr
eiinsular establishments, have
■ ■ ngaged in activities wh lly ι
île the scope ol their legitimate
lint ies.
II.i e activities have been of an
"per and unwarranted charact
er.
Γίι y render the continued pres
t in the United States of those
' l ies and consular astablish
inimical to the welfare of this
r :iit:y."
was the first action against
<■·■ :i 11 consular establishments in
1'iiiinlry. although It ilian con
'1 ;it Detroit and Newark, N. J.,
ordered closed s me tin.e ago.
'■ .ι- action against the Italian con
.ili \va; considered a reprisal for
Italian order requiring the elos
1 if two American consulates in j
!" ·, in mid-February.
day'. notice to the German gov-1
■ ■ i iit affects : cores of consular I
1 ■ 1.11through tit the United
■'·'·■ including Captain Fritz
W ilemann, the German consul gen
' it San Francisco who is a per
I friend of Adolf Hitler.
In making the action known. Welles
' 'M Ins press conference that the
1 riment had nothing in mind at
time regarding similar action
II t other countries, including
It.il.v.
(h· asserted also that the steps had
ι ·· I'lation to the sinking of the!
A··."rie,an merchant ship Robin Mmr !
ν Inch, survivors said, was torpedoed
' y German submarine.
Wary British
Watch Soviet
i
London, .June· 16.—(AP)—Wary [
Hi ι Urn, weighed increasing reports
■ή imminent break between Soviet ι
! · ι — ι a and Nazi Germany against ι
H · ir own mounting conviction today ι
·'■ t the talk of the troop movements j
w ere m fomt to hide the real blow—
at liritain.
Itowevir, the press and public
i'.'ive careful attention to each new
H'iu apparently indicating that the
"■'"•ι military strength actually
'right be diverted to the east by
* "'b]e or the threat of trouble with
'In Hed army.
I' was acknowledged generally
'iMt lull implications of the report
t troop concentrations on both
side.- of the German-Soviet frontier
('"iild not yet be determined.
I'he London News Chroniclo's
Ankara correspondent reported trav
' lers arriving from Hungary and
Humania as saying the odds are "five
f" one Germany will invade Russia
U'i'hin a fortnight."
Some sources suggested that the
ρ movements were put of an
international bluff through wtjich
Hitler hoped to obtain economic con
fi s- inns of Russia's Ukraine Many
"t these observers expressed belief
Stalin w'uuld give in rathqr than
ί'έΛΧ.
A llies Near Damascus
Key Defense
Pests Taken
Fall of Syrian Capital
"Expected Shortly;"
Defenders Driven
From Kissoue.
London. June Hi. (ΛΡ) Britisn
and Free French forces have advanc
ctl tn within five miles of Damascus ,
nil twelve miles of Beirut after·
< I>1 iii-iηκ the key defenses of botn |
Levant capitals. British reports from
the Middle East said today.
Allied columns were said to be
Hosing in on Damascus from two
sides after driving the defenders out
ot Kissoue. ten miles to the south,
lending point to repeated assertions
here that the fall of the Syrian capi
tal could 'be expected shortly."
Further west, a column driving up
thee Lebanese coast forced Frenen
troops in ancient Sidon. northern
most city visited by Jesus, to fail
back to within twelve miles of
Beirut, while another outfit, driving
inland from the coast, occupied
Dje/zine. twelve miles cast of Sidoji, ]
the British said.
The French claimed there had been
no change in the situation at Kissoue.
"south of Damascus," the French j
communique declared. "British and
de Gaullist columns have not sue-1
ceeded in advancing."
Vichy acknowledged the loss of
Sidon and said troops withdrawn
from that citv had taken up new po
sition·. but. while conceding that the ·
htnation around Dje/zine was "con
tused" has not admitted losing that
town. If it should fall, the French
said, a French column operating
around Merdjavoun would be cut off.
All these advances, made despite
reports that the axis was throwing
air and sea forces into the fight to
help the faltering French, indicated
the British and Free French had
straightened their lines to give them ;
a uniform penetration of 50 miles1
into Syria and Lebanan since they
invaded the French mandates eight
days ago.
Vichv reports -aid the heavy -hell
ing from nine British warships oil
the Lebanon coast had been a big
factor in the loss of Sidon.
It was at sea, apparently, where
the axis chose to keep the French.
The K.\F command at Cairo reported
yesterday that planes of the fleet
air arm had torpedoed an "enemy"
vessel near Beirut. The British have
refrained from calling the French the
' enemy" and have reserved that
word for the a\is powers.
Parkway
Commission
Not Welcomed
Daily Dispatch Riirt-au,
In Hi*· Sir \V:iltcr Hotel.
Bv Ili-INKV AVKKIU,.
Raleigh. June Hi. Then· arc well- i
based and circuinstanli.il reports
circulating that tin- Federal Pari;
Service does not plan to cooperate
enthusiastically with the state T'.luc
Ridge Parkway commission recently
named by Governor J. Melville
Rroughton as the result of a 1941
legislative act.
Reason, according to these reports,
is that the Federal officials feel
that the state group was set up on <
a political basis and without regard
for boosting the Parkway.
Chief bones which are said to
stick figuratively, in the craw of the
U. S. folk·; are the appointments of
the chairman and the executive sec
retary of the state commission.
The chairman, Monroe Redder of
Hcndcrsonville, was Rroughton's '
western campaign manager in the
1040 primary. The ,-ecretary. Jack
Knright (manager of an ,Ashevil|e
hotel) is said to have been active
politically in Rroughton's behali
during the same race.
The park men are pictured as
viewing both appointments as hav- t
ing been made as rewards for poli
tical service and not by reason of
any knowledge of parkway problems
or any ability to serve them on the
(Continued on Page Three.)
ZAMZAM SURVIVORS
SAIL h ROM LISBON
Lisbon, June 10.— (AI*)—The
American vessel lAeler was en
route to New York today with
5:! survivors of the sunken Ι.χ.νρ
tian liner /am/am among lier
.VU passengers.
When the Kxeter sailed Satur
day her lounge had been eon
verted into a dormitory to en
able the I nited States consulate
to send home all but three of
the Zamzam survivors remain
ins here.
Wilson, June Hi.— (ΛΡ)— Imvo of
Wilson's six survivors of the ill-fated
Egyptian steamer Zam/.am sailed
from l.isbon, Portugal, f r Now York
today aboard the American Export
liner Kxeter.
Thomas I). Miller, one of li e five,
cabled that information to Irietul.
here. The others on the Ext ter arc
W. A. Johnson, I'aul A. .Hurton.
James Smith anrl Harry C.wthornf.
The sixth Wilson passenger aboard
the Zamzam was Ned Laughing
h' use. and Miller cabled that he had
no information on him Laughing
house was wounded iir the Zamzam
shelling and was I :■ t reported aboard
a German ship.
Uncle Sam
Pays Better
Government - Seized
and Operated Plants
Pay Higher Wages,
Stewart Says.
By CHARLKS I». STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, June 16.—-Prevention
of strikes by government threats to
seize plants where workers do walk
out is a scheme with one puncture
in it which isn't generally mention! d.
It's this:
Having seized a plant, of course
the g ven\iient has to operate it.
Otherwise there wouldn't be any
point in having seized it. Λ govern
mental management must be put in
for the period oi the emi rgency. The
emergency management has to haw
workers, just as t.i.e plant's preceding
private management had to have 'em,
to maintain production.
And if the workers aren't available
on a voluntary basis, the proposition
is that the government can c nscnpt
'em, which production plants private
owners can't do.
Ah, yes, but the government isn't
likely to have to resort to industrial
conscription. Why not'.1 Why, oc
cause the government, in such indus
tries as it does operate, pays consid
erably higher wages and provides
better working e nditions tlian μη
ν ate managements like to agree to.
Consequently, when the government
seizes a private plant and begins to
operate it, workers are pretty cer
tain to gravitate in that plant's direc
tion very voluntarily indeed, w:lhout
needing to be conscripted. They may
even struggle and strive.· among
themselves te> get oeit of private em
ployment and mt the government's.
Suppose, then, the case of a big
private industry, with a lot of strike
lshly-inclined workers. And sup
pose that the government, in order to
scare t.i:em euit of the idea of eput
ting, warns 'em, "Dashding you
chaps' souls! II you dare to strike,
Uncle Sam'll grab the plant that you
work 1 r—and you'll get your pay
raised."
Intimidation?
li> lllitl ^ΐίΐιι^; lu jiit.injma i*j uiudi
workers much?
Private ownerships probably cion't
fancy the notion of having then
plants taken away from 'cm. I c.m
understand that the governmental
seizure notion may tend to make
them amenable. But I'm darned if
I can see how a threat of highci pay
is g ing to prevent an average work
ingman from striking.
To be sure, he's notified that, il he
strikes, he'll forfeit his deft rmcnt as
a selective service registrant. Any
number of skilled workers, though,
are too old to be caught by selective
service, whatever they may do.
Another suggestion's made, to scare
these oldsters. II they slnki on any
job essential to nati nally defensive
production, they're to be ineligible
for any su-bsequ> nt employment m a
defense industry. Τ e trouble with
that is that they'll be urgently need
ed. Workers already are scarce and
iContinued on Page Three.)
Italian
General And
Men Taken
Operation Begun Yes
terday Said to be Con
tinuing; Italian Sur
render in Southern
Ethiopia is Major Set
back.
( aim. Jinn· Hi—(API—The
British have launched a slash
ing offensive against the (ior
nians and Italians along the Egyp
tian-!.ib.van frontier and tlx·
mop-up of East Africa has ad
vanced a major step with the
surrender of an Italian general
and Î.OOO troops in southern
Ethiopia, the Middle East com
mand announced today.
PliifîKint! arr ss 11 : l.ibv.'in bord
er. where the Suez-bound axis
drive slallrd two m»n!!·. ·ΐΚ". im
perial f.u-ccs wore dcelaivd to have
Berlin, June 10.— (API—Sixty
British tanks were destroyed and
a British attack 011 the Salum
front in North \-'rics "collapsed"
under the combined resistance of
axis troops and warplanes. the
German high command report
ed today.
The British also lost eleven
planes—two bombers and nine
lighters—over the battlefields
on the Libyan-Egypt frontier, the
war bulletin said.
The British offensive, launch
ed yesterday, was said still to be
continuing, however.
destroyed twelve axis vehicles, just
across the frontier west of Bardia.
"The operation is continuing," to
day's communique ^iid. Axis posi
ti η- south and . outhi ast of the
border outpost of Saltan are bear
ing the brunt of tiie offensive.
Ί' c ι h ι.-h into the Gai > ! 1111 area,
whirl! .-·' ■■(' observers took to mean
a new British campaign to rc-eap
ture Libya Iron' the axis, started
last night. 24 It· «tirs after ad ν nee
patrob attacked an Italian column
wist of the l.iliy.m l> rdcr.
( in tin F;i ι \frican Iront, the
Middle !'· ■ -1 1 1 ' "'and sa id, Ital ian
Gener I I'alaio- with 2,1100 troops
had mi !i<li <ί| η the Soddu area,
some HiO ίο ι outh of Addis
Ababa, tin· I·''I opian capital. 'Phi
force eon !. ' ' < u one of Ho major
islands of h · .ι ce in Kthiopia.
More Beans,
Fewer Cukes
In Prospect
L!ail> l)is|»airh (liui-au.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
l'y HIMiY Λ VI l( I I.I.
I; leigh. .lune Hi. For those who
like Inn.ι boan this ought to ho
(h-» n:·.. for cucumber cravcis 'tis
sad news.
TIh Slate Department ol Agi icili
tuiv's experts sax that the lima bean
crop was "relatively unscathed by
tin t vere May dr night" and tliere
loie should be the largest since Ιϋ.ΐι".
(in the other hand, Tar Heel farm
ers may just a- well expect then
mallest cueumhei crop for "fresh
market" since HKiti.
Of the bean crop 11. G. Iirown,
junior statistician lor the agriculture
department, said:
"I,m.a beans have enjoyed normal
growth and were not up far enough
to In· affected materially by the re
cent drought. Mo t other truck crop;
suffered greater injury than at any
time during the past five years."
The indicated production of lima
beans ai of .June 1 was reported at
08.000 bushels, 1-1.000 bushels above
last year and 25.000 bushels above
the [last ten-year average. From 1.
r>00 acres, Kill above last year, grow
eis are expecting a yield of f!5 bus
hels per acre or five bushels more
than last summer.
Cukes.
Russell P. Handy, another junior
statistician in the department, had
(Continued oo Page Three.;
Check Robin Moor Manifest
With reporters present as witnesses, Arthur Lewis (left), president o£
the Seas Shipping Company, New York, operators of the Itohin Mnnr,
cheeks the ship's manifest to disprove Nazi assertions the torpedoed
vessel was earryimr articles of war. Twelve sporting rifles and 1 11
cases of shotgun shells proved to be the most military υί 1,007 items in
the $2,000,000 Cargo.
American Assets
In Italy Frozen
Swift Reprisal Taken
by Italian Govern
ment; Bank Accounts
Blocked, United
States Property Ord
ered Registered.
Rome, June l(i.— (AP)—The Ital
ian government froze American bank
accounts in Italy today in swift re
prisai rdtred by Premier Mussolini
Γι.r like action taken against Italian
holding.-, m the United States.
Italy's decision to retaliate wa.
madc know η yesterday in a coni
!ϋ .nique which said:
"Following the blocking of Italian
and (jem,an !unds and the registra
l , h ! ;. ii foreign property by the
1'ie dent ,,ι the United States, ti,e
1 ..mi : s.iveriiiiient, besides ordering
.-uilaoie treasures in reply, has ord
ered 111111 : ·.-cl iate registration o£ all
|j:,,peity belonging to the United
Slater and existing in Italy."
The i.nly United States property
in Italy is the er bassy, which en
joy- extraterritorial priveleges, but
Λ : ■ , ιe.iιth. ught the decree would
u.c.,ii the properly in Italy of all
Americans.
Those v. ho .-ought to withdraw
funds this morning were turned away
,:iid li t· Uank of Italy instructed
otiio, bank, to bl ck their checking
are,,lints.
No Italian estimated of American
ρ, ,: ι rt.\ holding.·· and credits will be
.,aille until ii appears ill the reg
i-11.11 miiis·, but Americans were un
derstood to own shares in about 61)
l\ Ii η eo;,ip:,nie<. (Washington dis
'.et ·.·. e lin ,,ted the value ol Amer
1, 1, !H',, ie. Is at about S1 -112.000,000.)
An ι c.,n circles expected an
(Continued on Page Six)
Protest
To Japan
Ambassador Grew
Delivers Sharp Pro
test Over Japanese
Bombing of Chung
king.
Tokyo, -I me 16.— (ΛΡ)—United
States .\ ,1 ill·»: .hi-t'pll CriWS
personally tit I .«·,»■' 1 today a ^harp
300-Wu!ft ■■·'■ »! pu» tost to F< )!Ί·:;4!1
Mini.· '.τ Y < ·· .Mat.-uoka a-^aiii· '
Sunday' .1. .■ ;·· «· b<mibinn » ·!
(Tn.uml. η · . ·· lib.· :ell in
the Λιιιΐ'Γ ran .i!r!\ «ne. narrowly
nnsin.L, th·· Γη led State· gunboat
Till i la.
five amba. sad «r acted a- soon as
•h:e rec.'i··. rd d, ! ·ι, η t ;! ά\·. bon oi'
the ί>· ' ι! >. η '4 "I Ci. ni.',:. 11 υ; and w : t ! ι —
out waiting !11 ; :· ' ' ' ·η ι λ n 11 the·
Slat" department..
Τ! e eniba ν dee! : d !■»· d: ···!" ··
the e\:ic! \v(n'(iiiui >:~ In· η ra
tion which Cb. w t·» . ; » VI; ■·
Trie amba -ador η ··· . .·■!
that at 1· \a " five b<"· ib 1'- · i I η ! i ie
vicinity of tire l*. S Iv "■ >
(' " 1 ; 11 η. η. η·; and ιν« .η- the nam · »at.
(Mir ) »·»··.! » \\ a - s ι id t < · ha \ « · e\
plod"d ! ij 'y vards Iron·! the e t·■ i ·a >'
air raid shelter. dama^m# ο!Ί ι <■
nid breaking window.··. in the en -
bas y itself.
Tar Heel Housewives Find
Food Prices Advancing
Daily Iiispatrfi Hurcau,
121 the Sir Waller !lold.
Iîalrigh, June Hi.- It takes no
bright : it: .-t km.in to pr >\ e t « » Tar
Heel i ; ι m. « ·\ν ι \t· th.it thrv are paying
more 11·r then- sea-onai meats, Γι mis.
vi jetable îmuI seafoods than they
did 1"·|μπ· I {it liM· ran amok in the
..• lid. i i;t figures on the approxi
mate pereentagc increases may be
mtiM-t!!^ ti> them.
Λ 11 Hark marketing special!-.
«)ί t ht' State iJepartment ut Agricui
ture, .iy the inereases range from
; ix per cent ti> 11.3 per cent.
H»· explains the rising prices t h 11 :
"Knlarged consumer purchasing
power. low production yields as ,i it·
ult ··I drought, plu.- government ti
nannal support of certain commo
dity· are tl··· principal stimulating
lactor· Ix'hind the price increase of
most farm products. While it has η il
been determined what share of the
abnormal increase paid for farm pro
ducts is going to the grower, it is a
known tact that tarmers in general
are receiving financial benefits from
■ Ii' i 1 >·» live lock ,md perish
able ι n i iduet.-."
June prices, he added, arc not al
together representative of market
1 '' I Κ111 l ο 1 j I > If I : ι . CI Hlinil iditie;
when c" pa ed with a Septemb'.'
m irkct ι the Ι'ιι opean v. < 11 ■ began ir
September!. but the upward treiv.
h,,· ben ι· tabi.slied ciuite definiteh
just the saint·.
iict iii prices in early .lune, a.·
compared with early September r
liM!·. show the billowing "represen
tative percentage of increase":
Fish (Retail) porgies 12 1-2
speckled trout f.'i; croakers (i; Span
ish mackerel Γίίΐ.
Hogs (prices to farmer) lîocki
Mount ,'iu, Richmond 3H, lialtiinon
M7, Chicago 40.
Ilutti ι : !I2 score, 42.
Cattle: ι pi ic e- to larmcrs) Choici
-tee: 21, cow-. 2(1. hulls 2I>. vealers fi
Spring lamb (prices to farmers
Good and choice 25.
Fruits and vegetables (retail) —
(Continu^. on Page Tnree}